Tuesday, December 23, 2008

A few years ago I bought the Torah Code program and checked out my name. The idea of the Torah Code program is that the Hebrew letters in the Torah phonetically or literally spell out various peoples' names and make predictions. Sure enough, my last name "langbert" is spelled out in there near my home town, West Shokan on a diagonal. It warranted a couple of shots of Dalwhinnie scotch to celebrate, but I wasn't sure what else to do with the program. Now I know. You can predict assassinations with it. Nancy Razik forwarded me a Youtube video by a guy who says that Obama's assassination by the Bush family is predicted for January '09 using the Bible Code:

In the following video, a left winger also thinks that Obama is going to be assassinated:

The statist website Huffington Post discusses the arrest of two skinheads last October who allegedly conspired to assassinate then-Senator Obama:

>"In all, the two men whom officials described as neo-Nazi skinheads planned to kill 88 people _ 14 by beheading, according to documents unsealed in U.S. District Court in Jackson, Tenn. The numbers 88 and 14 are symbolic in the white supremacist community."

Back in February '08 Doris Lessing, a Nobel Prize winning British novelist, predicted that Obama would be assassinated, according to the Daily Mail:

"British Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing caused uproar last night by predicting the assassination of Barack Obama if he becomes the first black U.S. president...The 88-year-old novelist's remarks came as the Democratic candidate toasted the most successful day in his White House campaign...Mr Obama, the 46-year-old son of a black Kenyan man and a white American, dismissed Mrs Lessing's comments...Miss Lessing said: "He would probably not last long, a black man in the position of president. They would kill him."

"Neo-Nazi boss Bill White, long given to swaggering threats and proposals for violence, this week went even further than normal — announcing plans for a magazine cover headlined “Kill This N*****?” with a photo of Barack Obama and, two days later, publishing the home address of a juror who helped convict another neo-Nazi leader in a federal conspiracy case."

The British seem to take a special interest in this. They may see America as a "wild west". The Telegraph's David Hughes writes in the Telegraph:

"So the America-haters are now mining a rich new seam of paranoia. They say it's only a question of time before the assassin's bullet gets him. I must have had a dozen conversations with people over the past week in which the issue was raised."

Hughes argues that:

"there's no more reason to expect President-Elect Obama to be assassinated than the leader of any other country. So why don't people stop obsessing about it?"

I wasn't aware that people were obsessing about it. But when I Google +obama and +assassination I get 2.75 million hits, even more than I get when I Google "Mitchell Langbert's Blog"!

On May 25, Jeffrey Feldman wrote on the Huffington Post blog:

>"During a live interview, FOX Contributor Liz Trotta jokingly wished for the assassination of Sen. Barack Obama...This latest incident from FOX News continues the trend in violent rhetoric about Sen. Obama from pundits, politicians, and entertainers...Grinning While Joking About Killing A Candidate...The incident happen in an exchange with the FOX News anchor."

This is not unlike the leftists who called George W. Bush a Nazi (I don't like him but do not think he's a Nazi. I don't like Obama, but do not think anyone should be assassinated).

My favorite Navy Seal, Jesse Ventura, also warned of the possibility of an Obama assassination, according to Prison Planet:

"Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura caused shockwaves during a national radio interview today when he warned Barack Obama to be wary of a potential assassination attempt, saying that the government would target any independent politician who got close to the White House."

On November 6, 2008, "Monash University's Greg Barton said: 'Obama is such an iconic figure that in the perverse logic of political assassination or terror he is an immensely attractive target.'"

The New York Post wrote on May 23, 2008 that Hillary Clinton said that she should not drop out of the race before June because:

"My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don't understand it," she said, dismissing calls to drop out."

The ability to disagree peaceably is the hallmark of a functioning democracy.

1 comment:

Mitch, pardon my French, but those 2 videos? What a couple of flaming assholes. "Papa Bush". "Martial Law". "Skull and Bones, control the Prez". They say WE wear tin foil hats? I really liked when the left wing nut said, "Obama reminds me so much of Kennedy..." This windnut couldn't have been born any time before me, '68. He does NOT KNOW JFK.

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I have researched and written about employee benefit issues and in my previous life was a corporate benefits administrator. I am currently associate professor of business at Brooklyn College. I hold a Ph.D. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, an MBA from UCLA and an AB from Sarah Lawrence College. I am working on a project involving public policy. I blog on academic and political topics.